FLImer V1.5 Documentation ========================= What is FLImer? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLImer is an animationplayer for Autodesk Animator (*.FLI/*.FLC) Files. It uses the Merlin Graphics-Board for Videooutput. Disclaimer ~~~~~~~~~~ The author cannot be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of this manual and/or the program(s) it describes. Any damage directly or indirectly caused by the use or misuse of this manual and/or the program it describes is the sole responsibility of the user her/him self. Copyright/Distribution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLImer,© Copyright 1993/94 by Reinhard Haslbeck. All rights reserved. This program is SHAREWARE, see below how to register. This program may be freely distributed as long as all documentation and executable(s) remain unchanged and are included with the distribution. Also no profit is to be made by selling this program. You may not charge more than Fred Fish does for a single library disk. Commercial distribution is NOT allowed without written permission from the author. It is allowed for non-commercial BBSs to distribute an archive with only the following files in it to save your users some money when they want to download this program. NOTE: All files listed below MUST be distributed together. None of the files listed below may be distributed on it's own! They may ofcourse be archived with any archiver. FLImer - Main Program FLImer.info - Icon FLImer.doc - Manual FLImer.doc.info - Icon How to use ~~~~~~~~~~ FLImer is designed for CLI-Usage. If You start it from Workbench, no options are available. Copy the file 'FLImer' to 'C:' and type 'FLImer ?'. This will display all options available: FILE/M,L=LOOPS/K/N,FS=FORCESPEED/K/N,R=RESOLUTION/K/N,QUIET/S: FILE: Simply the name of the *.FL?-File you want to see. If no Filename is entered, a Filerequester will appear. AmigaDos- style pattern-matching is also supportet. LOOPS: How often the animation will restart. Disabled in this unre- gistered version. FORCESPEED: Overrides the animspeed given by the *.FLI-file. If it's set to zero the anim is played as fast as possible. Since there's no legal way to sync the anim to the Merlin-Hardware, it's syncronized to the Amiga-Videohardware. RESOLUTION: This forces FLImer to open the Merlin-Screen in a custom size. RESOLUTION must be one of these: 320, 640, 800, 1024, 1280. If your choosen resolution is lower than the width of the Flic-File, the program will break with an error. This option will slow down the animation replay a bit. QUIET: Skips all Outputs to Stdout and the delays at the beginning. Useful for scripts. This unregistered version will wait a few seconds before it starts its work! Requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - An Amiga Computer with a Merlin pluged in - Amiga OS2.04 + Development ~~~~~~~~~~~ This program was developed on an A3000/25 with O.M.A. 2.0. History (for FLIcasso, FLItina and FLImer) ~~~~~~~ Changes from V1.4 to V1.5: - initial release of FLImer - Faster (if no custom resolutions selected) Changes from V1.3 to V1.4: - Added option 'RESOLUTION' - Fixed bug in FLC-Delta Decoder Changes from V1.2 to V1.3: - FLC-Support Changes from V1.1 to V1.2: - Pattern matching to view multiple files - Optimized on several parts Changes from V1.0 to V1.1: - Startable from Workbench via Icon How to register ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To get Your own, full featured version of FLImer, send * An empty floppydisk (880K) * A stamped envelope addressed to Yourself (non-stamped if You're no German) * The sharefee (10,-DM for Germans, $10 otherwise) TO: Reinhard Haslbeck Spirknerstr. 7 84137 Vilsbiburg GERMANY Special thanks to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Volker Rudolph for coding the special Merlin parts in 'FLImer' - My brother Walter for some debug hints - Helmut Waege for former Retina tests - Hans Maurer for the aminet-distribution of the demo-versions - Richard Kinder for the FLC-docs Contact the author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Address: Reinhard Haslbeck Spirknerstr. 7 84137 Vilsbiburg GERMANY Phone: +49/(0)87418676 Internet: haslbeck@informatik.tu-muenchen.de